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‘Workers go home hurt:’ New bill aims to protect warehouse workers from unsafe conditions
WPXI via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoKeith Williams has been in the warehouse industry for around 30 years. He’s worked for an Amazon warehouse in New York for about one year, and said he’s been injured on the job twice in that time.
Amazon Says Its Injury Rates Are Down. They’re Still the Highest in the Industry.
The Nation· 12 hours agoWhen Irene Tung at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) looked at the underlying data, she saw...
TEAMSTERS AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TAKE ON THE AMAZON SAFETY CRISIS
WTNH-TV New Haven· 13 hours agoTeamsters leaders and Amazon workers joined with Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Tina Smith (D-MN) today to announce the introduction of legislation in the ...
Two senators want US to order Tesla to restrict Autopilot use
Reuters· 6 days ago, opens new tab from allowing the use of driver assistance system Autopilot on roads where it is not...
OSHA cites St. Peters Amazon warehouse as federal lawmakers push for tighten regulations
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 9 hours agoFederal lawmakers and union officials took aim at Amazon Thursday, pushing for national legislation...
Virginia's first shared solar facilities come online
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 7 days agoVirginia’s first “shared solar” facilities are now online, and the state is set for a major expansion. Shared solar is a way for people who cannot afford...
‘Net neutrality’ to return under narrowly approved FCC rule, reversing Trump-era policy
Billings Gazette· 6 days agoThe Federal Communications Commission has approved a rule which will reclassify broadband internet as a telecommunications service subject to federal oversight, reestablishing the so-called ...
‘Privacy nightmare’: Your car is collecting a lot of information about you
WFXT via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThat’s why I think we’re way past time for a strong consumer federal privacy law.” Massachusetts...
Recap: What made news last week across Virginia
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 4 days agoEleanor Hunton Hoppe, the Charlottesville socialite and mother of two accused of child sex crimes, has accepted a plea deal. Hoppe, the 46-year-old scion...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu unfollows X users after they criticize police response to Emerson College...
The Daily Dot· 3 days agoMichelle Wu, the Mayor of Boston, unfollowed multiple progressive organizers on X after they...